44 Quotes About Macabre


  • Author Zelda Fitzgerald
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    The macabre who lived through the war have a story they loved to tell about the soldiers of the Foreign Legion giving a ball in the expanses around Verdun and dancing with the corpses. Alabama's continued brewing of the poisoned filter for a semiconscious banquet table, her insistence on the magic and glamor of life when she was already feeling its pulse like the throbbing of an amputated leg, had something of the same sinister quality.

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  • Author Holly Ringland
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    Violet nightshadeMeaning: Fascination, witchcraftSolanum brownii | New South WalesA member of the nightshade family, often toxic. Commonly associated with death and ghosts in folklore. Latin name comes from 'solamen' meaning to quieten or comfort, and refers to the narcotic properties of some species. Used as food plants by the larvae of some butterflies and moths.

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  • Author Sarah Vowell
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    Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?

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  • Author Mary H.K. Choi
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    He couldn't believe Jude's mute, macabre roommate had saved his life. He wondered if he'd have to get her a small taxidermied spider or something for her efforts.

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  • Author Neil Gaiman
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    The Sky was red, but not warm red of a sunset. This was an angry, glowering red, the colour of an infected wound.

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  • Author Derek Landy
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    This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt, - China Sorrows

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